Chef Pete Evans: Critics, Controversy, and Paleo Cooking

Underground Wellness Radio

Sean Croxton

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Chef Pete Evans — author and co-star of My Kitchen Rules — discusses how and why he’s changing the food climate in Australia.

Here's what we talked about:

2:25 – How Pete went from being a cook at McDonalds to an influential high-profile celebrity chef.

4:51 – Why don’t people cook anymore? Why being a good cook probably isn’t as difficult as many people may think.

8:10 – The best ways to overcome your fears and controversy and why it’s so important to do so.

14:12 – The common sense approach Pete has used to find the best diet, how he was finally “outed” as paleo and why he doesn’t regret causing a stir in the media.

23:53 – How Chef Pete stays positive among all the negativity and how you can, too.

28:57 – Paleo politics: What “paleo” means to Pete and why what we call a diet doesn’t really matter.

38:50 – Why paleo doesn’t have to be perfect and the mindset to help you stress less about food and diet.

41:20 – Pete’s perpective on “paleo-fying” and the role dietary guidelines play in the world of nutrition, today and in the future.

45:38 – All about Chef Pete’s books and his paleo-packed program The Paleo Way.

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0:33.7	Radio. Here's what's coming up. We can debate for hours whether legumes should or should not
0:39.4	make up a paleo diet, but you know what? That's not my job. My job is to create beautiful,
0:44.7	delicious meals that people can cook in their kitchen and at the end of the day, the kids can
0:49.6	eat it and go, you know what, mom or dad, that was delicious. Can we eat that again? One of our goals is to get
0:55.5	people to actually think about and talk about what they put into their mouths and their family's
1:00.3	mouths. The positives far outweigh these small media negativities that are out there. Here we go.
1:23.2	Yo, what's up, y'all, welcome back to Underground Wellness Radio, brought to you by our friends over at Thrive Market.
1:28.5	Today's episode is with Chef Pete Evans, who is also known as the Paleo Chef out of Australia.
1:34.0	There's a lot of crazy controversy going on in Australia about real food and the paleo diet.
1:36.1	A lot of just crazy nonsense going on.
1:44.1	And so Pete is here to fill us in on what's going on and also to tell us about the major changes that are going on in people's lives and with their health when they adopt the paleo real food diet. And so without further ado, here's Pete. Pete Evans, welcome to the
1:51.5	podcast, buddy. Hi, Sean. Thanks for having me. Thanks for being here. I've got so much to talk with
1:56.6	you about, I was in Portland several months ago hanging out with Norgett Gautis.
2:01.1	And as soon as I got to her office, she probably launched into a 30-minute rant about what's
2:07.2	going on in Australia surrounding paleo and real food and you.
2:11.5	And so I'm really excited to have you here.
2:13.4	But before we get to all of the controversy and stuff, I want to hear more about your story.
2:18.5	I mean, you are one of the most popular and famous, well-known chefs in the world now.
2:25.8	And I'm wondering how that comes to be.
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